Meet the contributors of upcoming Issue 200
Marc Frazier
Marc Frazier has been widely published in journals including The Spoon River Poetry Review, ACM, Good Men Project, f(r)iction, Slant, Permafrost, Plainsongs, Poet Lore, Rhino, and Connotation Press. He is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Award for poetry. His book “The Way Here” and his chapbooks “The Gods of the Grand Resort” and “After” are available on Amazon as well as his second full-length collection titled “Each Thing Touches” from Glass Lyre Press. He has done readings and led workshops in the Chicago area for many years. His website is marcfrazier.org.
Ann Blackburn
Ann Blackburn is a student at Sarah Lawrence College where she studies poetry. She has studied with Cynthia Cruz, Suzanne Gardinier, and Martha Rhodes. She is currently working on her manuscript. Her work has previously appeared in Maudlin House, Red Paint Hill Poetry Journal, and Poppy Road Review. Her website can be found at annblackburnpoetry.com.
Jeff Rose
Jeff Rose is a writer and storyteller living in Brooklyn.
Robert Perchan
Robert Perchan’s poetry chapbooks are “Mythic Instinct Afternoon” (2005 Poetry West Prize) and “Overdressed to Kill” (Backwaters Press, 2005 Weldon Kees Award). His poetry collection “Fluid in Darkness, Frozen in Light” won the 1999 Pearl Poetry Prize and was published by Pearl Editions in 2000. His avant-la-lettre flash novel “Perchan’s Chorea: Eros and Exile” (Watermark Press, Wichita, 1991) was translated into French and published by Quidam Editeurs (Meudon) in 2002. In 2007 his short short story “The Neoplastic Surgeon” won the on-line Entelechy: Mind and Culture Bio-fiction Prize. He currently resides in Pusan, South Korea. You can see some of his stuff on robertperchan.com.
C.W. Bigelow
C.W.’s short stories and poems have most recently appeared in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Potluck, Dirty Chai, The Flexible Persona, Literally Stories, Compass Magazine, FishFood Magazine, Poydras Review, Five2One and Yellow Chair Review.
Bonnie Lykes
Bonnie Lykes grew up in a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the middle of the Arizona desert. The second she turned 18, she moved to San Francisco and quickly joined a punk band. Much later, she attended Antioch University in Seattle, Wa. and began story telling. Now, life in upstate New York. She hosts “The Writer’s Voice” every 2nd Tuesday, WIOX 91.3 FM and reads at bookstores, lit fairs, festivals, and slammy slams.
Abigail Lalonde
Abigail Lalonde holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rosemont College. She is a Literary Reflections Editorial Assistant for Literary Mama. She lives with her husband and three cats in Philadelphia. Her spirit animal is a combination of a goth teenager and Holly Golightly (from the book, not the movie. Don’t be silly).
AN Block
Since 2015 AN Block’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Buffalo Almanack (recipient of its Inkslinger Award for Creative Excellence), Umbrella Factory Magazine (a 2015 Pushcart Prize nominee), DenimSkin, Per Contra, Constellations, The Bicycle Review, Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, Flash Frontier, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Down in the Dirt, Contrary, the Blue Bonnet Review, The Nite Writers Literary Arts Journal, and The Binnacle, the latter of which won Honorable Mention in its Twelfth Annual International Ultra-Short Competition. He has an MA in History and is a Master of Wine who teaches at Boston University. He is also Contributing Editor at the Improper Bostonian.